Chapter 995 Chimelong Daily
If a family is harmonious and everything goes well, it has nothing to do with identity. Even if it is an imperial family or a harmonious family, it can even be elevated to the national destiny.
Zhu Cixuan was busy with government affairs and had to worry about his father's housework. To put it bluntly, Emperor Chongzhen was just idle.
If you are comfortable and cause trouble, then find something for him. For example, cultivate a hobby.
"Father, you have always liked to eat fish. Why not try fishing yourself. The fish you fished by yourself will taste delicious."
Emperor Chongzhen had a long history of fishing. However, it was not implemented. He heard Zhu Cilang’s reminder and nodded: “I will try it another day.”
Middle-aged men lose interest in the opposite sex and start to mess with some strange things. These things usually do not require any technical threshold, but they are very expensive.
Emperor Chongzhen began to make trouble. The royal family did not lack money, but what they lacked was interests and hobbies.
For example, Emperor Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of Heaven, wanted to be a carpenter. He ignored the government and threw it directly to Wei Zhongxian.
Chongzhen has now become a hand-off manager. He has begun to study various fishing rods and gears, and he is enjoying it.
In order to relieve boredom, Zhu Cixuan sent someone to send a mahjong and a few poker.
This time, the harem was in a bad mood.
At the beginning, the concubines were quite cautious. They were careful not to overtake the game of cards and mahjong with Queen Mother Zhou. For example, if they could win, they would lose intentionally.
This made Empress Dowager Zhou very bored, so she asked Zhu Cilang to find a solution. It seemed that Zhu Cilang had to take action to solve everything.
These trivial matters really made Zhu Cilang very angry. So Zhu Cilang issued an imperial edict to the entire harem, that is, there is no father or son in the casino. The meaning is that even if you are the empress dowager who is in the world, everyone will be equal in the casino.
The harem became lively, and they joined the Paijiu Mahjong Army, including Queen Yi'an Zhang Yan.
Chinese mahjong is a casual game originating from China. It was originally a game of royal families and nobles. Its history can be traced back to three to four thousand years ago. In the long-term historical evolution, mahjong gradually spread from the palace to the people, and was basically established in the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
According to legend, people named Wan Biaozhang in the Ming Dynasty created mahjong based on the "Yezige Opera" and used their own name "Wan, Biaozhang" as the three basic colors. On the other hand, some people say that mahjong was originally a "grain protection brand" in Taicang, Jiangsu.
It’s okay to say that Mahjong is, Paijiu has been passed down for thousands of years. Only with playing cards, Zhu Cilang said that it was the method brought back by the Ming fleet from the West. Three people fight for landlords, four people mahjong, five people royalty and six people are of level level, etc. At this moment, the concubines in the harem have something to do, and they won’t be bored and bored.
As for Emperor Chongzhen, he was addicted to fishing and could not extricate himself. Even in the middle of winter, Zhu Cilang specially made a greenhouse with glass to fish indoors.
The harem finally calmed down, and the previous dynasty had a lot of affairs. Fortunately, everything was also developing in a good direction.
Is this a good thing when a country's economy develops too fast?
Of course it is a good thing, but it is just that the rapid economic rise also has certain disadvantages.
The rapid growth of social wealth distribution is prone to polarization and a bubble economy, which leads to a sharp increase in inflationary pressure.
Fortunately, all of this is still within a controllable range. It is just that monetization reform is imperative.
The court once introduced policies to vigorously encourage the transaction of silver notes. In fact, the issuance of Jiaozi banknotes has been carried out since the Northern Song Dynasty, but later it ended in the flood of issuance.
This makes the people instinctively fear the transaction of paper currency.
Even Zhu Cilang issued an order to strictly control the issuance of silver notes. First of all, the issuance of silver notes must be linked to the income of the treasury. That is to say, how many taxes the treasury receives and how many silver notes are issued each year.
Zhu Cixuan didn't know much about economics. He only knew that he did this to prevent the spread of money. However, with too fast economic development, the number of silver bills was far from keeping up with the speed of economic development.
For example, with the rise of coastal trade, commodity trading became increasingly active. These commodities were basically carried out in the form of barter. For example, a ship of porcelain from the Ming Dynasty went to a small country in Nanyang, and the small country in Nanyang used their local specialties in exchange for it.
At the same time, Nanyang merchants who smelled business opportunities began to sail to Fujian coastal areas and other places to engage in trade cooperation with the Ming Dynasty.
There are always differences in barter, and these differences can be traded in the form of currency. Nanyang merchants were even more worried about the Ming Dynasty's silver notes, and they only like silver.
Although silver is good, it is not convenient to carry. One hundred thousand taels of silver weighs more than three tons.
At this time, the official money houses became particularly important. That is, the Ming money houses were built with the court itself as their reputation and the Ming money houses were built in coastal areas and areas with prosperous trade.
To put it bluntly, it is the bank of the Ming Dynasty. The bank of the Ming Dynasty no longer belongs to a private organization, but is an official nature. It is affiliated with an independent department under the Ministry of Revenue.
Each bank has one Zhuangzheng, and there are also positions such as clerks, chief clerks, etc., similar to modern presidents, vice presidents, bank managers, etc. These people eat the court's salary and unified official uniforms.
It is such a money house opened with the Ming Dynasty court as its reputation. Moreover, there is no charge for depositing and withdrawing silver from the Ming Dynasty money house.
Even if the coins are stored in the Daming Money House, there is still a certain amount of interest. Although the interest is not much, it has changed the pattern of this era after all.
Taking the court itself as its credibility, even so, many people still hesitate. Fortunately, this is a long process, and one day these people will believe and accept it.
In addition, the papermaking and printing technology in the Ming Dynasty was quite mature. In fact, Zhu Cixuan had always had this idea for newspapers. Newspapers can educate the people and use correct public opinion guidance to the people.
Moreover, it can enable the people to understand the various policies of the court in a timely manner. It can be said that it benefits the country and the people.
Nowadays, with the continuous development of the economy, the living standards of the people are also constantly improving. Even three meals a day have become the mainstream.
You should know that the ancients always had two meals a day and three meals a day. Except for the powerful and powerful people, ordinary people dared not think about it.
Nowadays, three meals a day have become very common, but with the continuous high yield of grain crops, a large amount of surplus labor has emerged, which are the talents that are urgently needed for future social development.
China is the first country in the world to have newspapers. During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, the Kaiyuan Zabao, a kind of newspaper published in Chang'an, was the first newspaper printed on paper.
The agency that delivered such newspapers was called Post Office at that time. The delivery personnel were soldiers of the Tang Dynasty War Department, tied leather belts, carried rings, rode fast horses and mailed. When they heard the ringtone, pedestrians were far away from the road, and then the Kaiyuan newspaper would be issued with the whole country.
It was just because the prosperous times of the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty at that time had a strong economic foundation.
The same is true for the Ming Dynasty today. Zhu Cilang named it the "Changlong Daily". At this time, the dawn of prosperity in the Ming Dynasty had already appeared. Zhu Cilang believed that he was worthy of this era. This is the prosperous Ming Dynasty he wanted.
Chapter completed!